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Gay Marraige
Gay marraige is a tricky issue. There are numerous good arguments to be made on both sides. For those who oppose gay marraige, I feel like the strongest argument is that marraige, of any kind, is a religious institution and should be approached as such. The legal system is not the place to define marraige but to legally recognize unions. I probably disagree with this, but this is certainly a respectable position to take. What is not, in my opinion, a respectable position is to say that gay marraige undermines non-gay marraige. That's just ridiculous. If Frank and Jeff's marraige somehow waters down the sanctity of Jill and Henry's marraige, then there are problems with Jill and Henry's marraige.
Ann Coulter Is Going Down
Late Friday night at about 1:30 AM or so, I was watching Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, as I tend to do. Ann Coulter was a guest, and it was absolutely awful. I got so angry watching her act like a child that I started to wonder who pays this woman. I thought I might write letters to all publications who pay her for her work to inquire about why anyone would pay her to espouse such nonsense. She is such a terrible human being, and I think people need to know this. She's got to be stopped, and I decided that letter writing was insufficient. My anger could wear off, but it hasn't yet, and I've just registered the domain name www.stopanncoulter.com. If people have experience and tips about running a real webpage, drop me a line. I hope to have it up within a few days. Check back for more details later.
Have a nice Monday, everyone.
Gay marraige is a tricky issue. There are numerous good arguments to be made on both sides. For those who oppose gay marraige, I feel like the strongest argument is that marraige, of any kind, is a religious institution and should be approached as such. The legal system is not the place to define marraige but to legally recognize unions. I probably disagree with this, but this is certainly a respectable position to take. What is not, in my opinion, a respectable position is to say that gay marraige undermines non-gay marraige. That's just ridiculous. If Frank and Jeff's marraige somehow waters down the sanctity of Jill and Henry's marraige, then there are problems with Jill and Henry's marraige.
Ann Coulter Is Going Down
Late Friday night at about 1:30 AM or so, I was watching Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, as I tend to do. Ann Coulter was a guest, and it was absolutely awful. I got so angry watching her act like a child that I started to wonder who pays this woman. I thought I might write letters to all publications who pay her for her work to inquire about why anyone would pay her to espouse such nonsense. She is such a terrible human being, and I think people need to know this. She's got to be stopped, and I decided that letter writing was insufficient. My anger could wear off, but it hasn't yet, and I've just registered the domain name www.stopanncoulter.com. If people have experience and tips about running a real webpage, drop me a line. I hope to have it up within a few days. Check back for more details later.
Have a nice Monday, everyone.
posted by Scott Davis at 9:15 AM
4 Comments:
Hey Scott,
Checking out your blog today. Great harangue of coulter. Best of luck with the site -- i'll plug it all i can and see if some other bloggers i know will jump on it.
I'm an associate editor of the Texas Civil Rights Review -- my editor (and a friend dating to the early 70s) is Greg Moses, an MLK scholar. He also does Peacefile at http://peacefile.org/phpnuke/ which you ought to get to know, as well as NonViolenceUSA at http://pages.prodigy.net/gmoses/nvusa/index.htm
The TCRR is at http://www.texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/
Anyway, i caught an Ann Coulter Christmas message that we then stuck on TCRR. It's worth broadcasting as a primer to her jaded mentality. Here it is:
""12/30/2004
Onward Christian Soldier! Nothing Sells Like Crusade
Filed under: gmoses— gmoses @ 1:42 pm
The following speech act represents very well what counts for cool in the USA today:
“To The People Of Islam:
Just think: If we’d invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity
YOU’D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
Merry Christmas”
Pasted from the Ann Coulter Homepage
anncoulter.com
Dec. 30, 2004
NOTE: Will the State Dept. consider this “inciting.” Designate anncoulter.com a terrorist org. Will Fox, et al. refuse to broadcast her opinions via satellite. Or will the double standard apply: Crusade sells, jihad incites. (No question marks needed for rhetorical questions.) –gm ""
You're doing great work kiddo -- keep it up.
All my best,
tony g
Error,
I just realized that the posting is on Peacefile not TCRR.
tg
The best (conservative) argument against gay marriage is that an institution as important and as yet long-lasting as marriage shouldn't be tinkered with so readily. That argument might not convince you or me, especially if you try to frame gay marriage in terms of civil rights (which I think is another dubious proposition), but I certainly have some sympathy for it.
in addition to tony g's coulter quote (which is shocking, and outrageous), it doesn't take too much digging to find others. for instance, in a new york observer interview, coulter had this to say about the oklahoma bombing:
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."i picked this one up from anticoulter.com, and it is truly despicable. thing is, maybe, just maybe, i might understand how being the postergirl for right-wing punditry could possibly make you slip out one or two ridiculous quotes which you don't truly believe. in the heat of the moment, etc., you might say things that you wish you could take back. in the heat of being forceful and clever, maybe for a split second, you lose all sense of decency.
but what if you were given the chance to take back such a quote, as ann was in an interview with john hawkins, which i found on rightwingnews.com:
john: "You've caught a lot of heat for a couple of quotes you made. In your column three days after 9/11, you said, 'We know who the homicidal maniacs are.They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.' You also said in an interview with the New York Observer, 'My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.' Do you stand by those quotes or do you think that perhaps you should have phrased them differently?"
ann: "Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn 'convert them to Christianity' quote. (Thank you for giving the full quote. I have the touch, don't I?) Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion. RE: McVeigh quote. Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.'"
so much for giving ms. coulter the benefit of the doubt. start up the site, and it'll be my number one bookmark.
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